Well, I do apologize for the lack of recent updates. What with Ivan barreling through, Jeanne skirting by, crazy hard drives, and major football action, I’ve been preoccupied.
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Ivan was fun. We spent a lot of that morning hiding in the second bathroom with the two cats while tornadoes whizzed by. Though animals are supposed to ‘know’ when bad weather is going on, my kitties missed the handout for that sixth sense. While Steven and I hunkered in the tub listening to the radio, Hermione was at the door, begging to go out so she could play. Renton was going nuts trying to catch the flashlight beam that was dancing on the ceiling. The next tornado warning, we had them both in their carriers.
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War Damn Eagle, by the by. My Tigers are ranked 8th (AP) and 9th (ESPN) nationally after delivering a last-minute win against LSWho. T’was an excellent game. You know it was an interesting game when you’re hoarse the next day. This Saturday — Rocky Top.
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I just wanted to be the good little Windows user and upgrade to Service Pack 2. It was all I wanted. Can’t be too hard, right? Just click and download, simple simple. Instead, I got a ‘failure to download’ message with a reference number, which sent me to a page full of vague explanations and even vaguer remedies. I wouldn’t have thought Windows would prompt the end user to mess with dll files, but that’s what they had me doing, to no avail.
Steven got home and brought in the big guns to fix a kernel problem. (Now I know to never, ever, ever, EVER mess with the load-up screen. It makes Windows feel violated). Of course, the kernel-changing program said it couldn’t fix the kernel because something had been changed on it, therefore rendering it non-original. Sooooooo (ready for this?) it couldn’t change the kernel back to it’s original state if it wasn’t in it’s original state to begin with.
At least that was it’s excuse.
I am still on my knees thanking the computer gods that I was able to get off my picture files and put them on Steven’s computer before we went kernel-harvesting. That’s the one good thing out of this story.
Okay, so bad hard drive means buy another one, so off to newegg.com we go. We purchase. We expect shipping today. We hook up the hard drive to Steven’s computer for shits and giggles. We drop our jaws, flabberghasted, as we see it working JUST FINE with Steven’s machine.
The mind boggles.
I’m still afraid of that hard drive so Steven is going to keep it for his computer, and I will still be getting my new one today. Maybe this time I will back up my photo files; I was exceptionally lucky with this last go.
I just wanted to be the good little Windows user and upgrade to Service Pack 2.